Future-proofing CSV Column-creep with the `janitor` Package

Matt Pettis
2018-10-18

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  • Principal Data Scientist, Honeywell
  • R user, since about 2010, according to the internet

Check these features

Baby Bear

... Now these features

Momma Bear

Moar features !!1!

Cthulhu

You'll probably keep getting more columns, tbh

itcrowd

  • It's a problem
  • … beause you hand-changed the column names.
  • … and there's got to be a better way…

Say...

itcrowd

… there's an easy, programatic way to do this?

To the notebook!